So first of all, a solid episode, with a dope blip scene again, they're always cool and they should keep showing us what happened when the second snap was ... snapped?
I was hoping they could somehow justify why Yelena wants Clint dead and make it more logical, but they didn't. She just has a grudge on him because reasons I guess. It's still really dumb to connect her to the story this way. Florence Pugh is still great as Yelena tho, it's always nice to see her shine in whatever role she's playing.
I think lots of plot points were rushed, but it's obvious for anyone that's paying attention.
Now my main problem with these marvel shows that is especially more prominent in Hawkeye, is the 6 episode per season format they have going on. Just as much as the 13 episode format of Netflix runied Marvel-Netflix shows and they had to put boring dragged-on fillers to keep the episodes at 13(which Daredevil did beautifully, but other shows suffered from), this one actually suffers from being too short.
Like how much lost potential we have with the Mom and Jack storyline? We actually focused on them for like what, 4 or 5 scenes which are not 20 even minutes in total? You could have an entire season dedicated to them, but they just cram 3 storylines into 6 episodes and every episode feels like a hype trailer for the next one and you feel like not much happened here.
If you still don't know what I'm talking about, let me put it this way; don't you feel like the episodes are just too short? For a 6-episode show with 3 integrated storylines, you'd expect at least full 45 minutes every episodes, but nope we get only 30 or so. Also, doesn't it feel like you're watching a +10-episode show but skipping every other episode? There is so much potential here for character development for Jack, the Mom, the Armand situation but they just put the beginning, skip the middle and show the end, because time restraint.
And you might be asking, why would they do that when there's the potential for more than 6 episodes and even more season, why do they rush and try to not show that much in the first 80% of the show and just cram everything in the last episode and hastily give closure to the most of them?
Well, it's because they have lots of movies and shows about all these different characters and they don't want them to be released at the same time and one show HAS to end for the next one to begin, so they have to do bare minimum (that's kinda unfair to say but still feels like it) and just keep publishing the next one and the next one and the next one.
I don't mind them letting one show finish then showing the next one, I actually like they're doing it this way, all I'm saying is, this kind of roadmap only benefits the Disney+ catalogue and not the shows themselves. I don't care that you're releasing these shows back to back, but maybe, maybe give them more time so they can develop more well-established plots and characters, because I'm sure these writers can do just fine if you give them more episodes to work with and I'm sure they did everything they could to adapt these ideas to only 6 episodes, but it's shows that it needs more time man, it shows.
